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Hark! Sixpence Sings Again Hark! Sixpence Sings Again

Nash, Slocum reunite for a marvelous Christmas album.

Mark Moring | posted 12/02/2008 09:33AM

The Dawn of Grace
by Sixpence None The Richer
Provident, October 2008
$12.99

Christmas came early this year when Sixpence None the Richer reunited after almost four years apart. Making up one of the ...

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Anonymous

Posted: December 14, 2008 5:54 PM


well RxBach, you sound like a genius!I'm off to perform yet another concert not being able to find that darn pitch. God could definitely have done a better job with this old voice. Merry Christmas! Leigh Nash

Doug	Posted: December 04, 2008 3:27 PM


You should post John's comment on the main page for the whole season! God bless John! Your poll showed by far the most votes for "classical/hymns" music category - but NONE of this music was reviewed! I think this suggests a problem, but my brain is dulled by "Xmas music"... It's a good thing I'll be singing all of Handel's Messiah this Sunday!

RxBach

Posted: December 02, 2008 6:07 PM

Not ever having heard Sixpence None the Richer, I was curious after Mark Moring's very favorable review. I live in a different musical universe than Moring and this pair. I do like the spare, clean guitar accompaniment, but Leigh Nash's vocal style sounds like a child sludging through corn syrup. The slurring of words and pitches drives me nuts. And the pseudo-adult voice doesn't help. Though I appreciate a wide range of music I should probably admit that I'm a classical musician and a choral conductor. There are so many excellent recordings of Christmas music -- major works but also carols ( start, e.g., with those sung by the Choir of the King's College, Cambridge). I would appreciate this recording if I heard it at a mall -- as opposed to awful stuff one hears in such places now days. But I wouldn't buy it or play it at home. It worries me that so few Christians today know or listen to the great -- Christian! -- choral works and Christmas music of Western civilization.

John	Posted: December 02, 2008 2:34 PM

I voted for liking classical/hymns best for Christmas music because, overall, they seem to be the most sacred. And, I am a rocker! There have been some great contemporary Christmas songs as well - such as "Mary, Did You Know?" and others. In the city where I live, a major Christian radio station has the slogan, "It's not 'Happy Holidays,' but 'Merry Christmas.'" Then, everytime I tune in, they are playing a secular Christmas song!?!? What's up with that? To get good sacred Christmas music, I have to tune into the Catholic AM station. This seems to confirm the history I've read that Protestantism (the Puritans and others) introduced (or revived from pagaism) many of the secular concepts of Santa Claus in order to fight the idea of "St. Nicolaus." What a shame! Evangelicals need to get back to sacredness. You don't need Frosty the Snowman and Rudolf in order to attract people to the church. People go to church to hear the good news - the salvation message of Christmas.

Jonathan

Posted: December 02, 2008 1:11 PM


I've heard a couple of the songs and they are very good. Talented duo!

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